Colorado Avalanche knows its penalty killing has been in peril at the Pepsi Center. Are things finally looking up?

Avalanche forwards Gabe Landeskog and Carl Soderberg had exactly the identical answer, which was no answer. “If we knew how to repair it, we’d,” they each said Feb. 16, soon after absorbing a 3-0 loss to the St. Louis Blues in the Pepsi Center. Colorado had just lost its sixth consecutive game at home, where it
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Nuggets continue home dominance with resounding win over the Clippers

Denver’s charge toward the postseason is on. The Nuggets (41-18) discharged the Los Angeles Clippers 123-96 on Sunday at the Pepsi Center with a well-rounded, democratic performance featuring big games from Nikola Jokic and Paul Millsap and cruised to another home win. The victory improved the Nuggets’ home record to 26-4 and bumped them to
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Avalanche in playoff picture after another victory over Central Division-leading Winnipeg

The Avalanche is devouring everything in its course and alive. In response to an eight-game losing skid, the Avs have climbed back in the Western Conference playoff picture by producing factors in six of their last eight games — a stretch capped by Wednesday night’s 7-1 triumph over the Central Division-leading Winnipeg Jets in the
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Avalanche keeping MacKinnon, Landeskog and Rantanen’s line broken up vs. Winnipeg

The Avalanche’s lines at Wednesday night’s match against the Winnipeg Jets will again look like trainer Jared Bednar drew names from a hat. There is a method to his madness, nonetheless, and Bednar would like to stick to what helped deliver a 3-0 success over the Vegas Golden Knights on Monday. Scorers Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko
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Gary Harris will play Friday, Nuggets coach says, but Trey Lyles is iffy

The Nuggets tipped from the next half of this season . For about an hour. “We had been healthy for approximately 50 minutes,” coach Michael Malone said Wednesday evening at the Pepsi Center following the franchise&rsquo. “(Forward) Trey Lyles kind of hobbled off the court, so that we all ’ll see what’s happening with him.
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CHSAA state wrestling preview: Names and story lines to know heading into the Pepsi Center

With the CHSAA state wrestling tournament running Thursday through Saturday at the Pepsi Center, here will be the biggest names and story lines to see. Out a fourpeat is sought by four.  There’so plenty of individual history inclined to be made this weekend like Ponderosa’s Cohl Schultz, Greeley Central’s Andrew Alirez, Pomona’s Theorius Robison and Pueblo County’s Brendon
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Nuggets Insider: Should Denver pursue Anthony Davis this summer?

In case you missed it, then Anthony Davis threw a Molotov cocktail to All-Star weekend a few days before, announcing that “all of 29 teams” are on his list of prospective commerce destinations. Apparently, it’s all about winning for your Brow… for today. If such is the situation, the Western Conference’s No. 2 group seems
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Denver Sports Omelette: All hail Tad Boyle, the uncommonly competent Pac-12 basketball coach

From the land of their maligned, the qualified person is king. This is the case for Tad Boyle and his Colorado Buffaloes guys ’s basketball team — a perfectly fine collection of college hoops talent that is now running roughshod on a downright dreadful Pac-12. Somehow, the team of the man whose has pulled on
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Journeyman minor-leaguer Andrew Agozzino has a big night for the Avalanche in his first NHL game since 2015-16

In the 470th game of his professional baseball career, but only his 11th at the NHL and first since the 2015-16 season, center Andrew Agozzino scored his first goal at the highest degree. Conserve the puck. Agozzino, 28, had been on Cloud 9 Monday night after serving lead the Avalanche into a 3-0 victory over Vegas
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Avalanche snaps six-game losing skid at Pepsi Center with shutout win over Vegas

After performing apparently everything wrong in the previous six home matches, the Avalanche merged up its own lines Monday night and finally discovered a winning recipe facing a near-sellout audience of 17,808 at the Pepsi Center. The Avs, who’d been outscored 28-9 throughout their six-game losing streak in front of faces, got plenty of scoring,
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